Re: removing the need for "cvs add file" to contact the server....

[Mike Little]

On 14 Feb 00, at 12:23, John Macdonald wrote:
>... and they all ignore all of the files and sub-directories of any
>directory that doesn't contain a CVS sub-dir (i.e. any directory that
>is not part of the cvs-managed work area is totally ignored).  They
>quietly return from such a directory without doing any other portion
>of the cvs operation as soon as it has been determined that the
>directory is not part of the cvs-managed work area.

Are we still talking about 'cvs add' here?

If cvs add worked in *exactly* the same way as most of the other 
commands, that is; ignore all of the files and sub-directories not part of the
cvs-manages work area, it wouldn't be much use would it?

Mike


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